Books and Arts Daily 31 December 2012

In this episode

The 90s are back so today it's 90s nostalgia day. Writer Kurt Andersen argues that the West and the United States is in a state of collective cultural paralysis and says that our cultural style hasn't changed since the 90s even as technology has changed our world.

In the 90s authors Christos Tsiolkas, Richard Flanagan and Andrew McGahan published fiction for the first time and we are still reading them today. Who were the other voices of the era and what stories still reverberate today?